The changes were difficult and painful for the HP old guard to accept and they hated Florina for tearing apart their little slice of nirvana and hated her because the direction of the electronics industry and the end of the Cold War had killed the lucrative HP business model.
For her part, Florina was a polarizing personality who had no qualms about antagonizing HP’s entrenched employees and their vested interests in the status quo that was dragging HP towards bankruptcy.
In the end, the working relationship between Fiorina and vested HP employees and management broke down to the point where it became a issue of entrenched employees and management vs Fiorina.
Fiorina lost but her replacement followed the Fiorina business plan almost to the letter and the company has successfully remade itself.
The same cannot be said for IBM, DEC, SGI, Burrows, Control Data Corp, Cray Research, NCR, Honeywell, Zilog, Rockwell, Commodore, Amdhal, UNIVAC, Scientific Data Systems, SUN microsystems , NeXT, Sperry - Rand and a whole universe of companies that once were but no longer are.
Thank you for your post.
I’m not buying what you’re selling, but you’ll probably convinced the already inclined to vote for her.
I never will.
Fiorina to me wreaks of being a fall back position on Jebra for the GOPe.
I won’t be cooperating. She has nothing but here HP position to point to, for success.
FAIL.
Once again, the argument is made the the management team coming in after Fiorina deserves no credit.
I’m simply not going to buy that.